She's Back!!! The Little Red-throated Loon Has Returned Again - Every Year Since 2015

            She wasn't there two days ago, but, this morning she was back. 
This is the earliest that I have seen her return. 
There is still some ice on the lake.
I have been photographing her since 2015. 
May 7th was the earliest that I had seen her return.
This pretty much made my day. 
What really made my day, was that she remembered me and came when I called her. She swam over close to the shore.
Then, I told her "come and see me" and she came out of the water and posed for me. 
She did that three different times.
After sittng on the bank for awhile she would return to the water. 
Then, I would talk to her and tell her to "come and see me" and she would.
How cool is that!!! :-)
Camera Settings: f/8 - 1/250 - 343mm - ISO 640
Using fill flash.
Please view very large.
   

Taken on: May 2, 2024

Tags:

Red-throated Loon

Loons

Waterfowl

Summer

Lake

Lakes

Water

Bird

Birds

Alaska

AlaskaFreezeFrame

Beautiful

Divers

Red Eyes

Ponds

Nature

Outdoors

Outdoor

Wildlife

Anchorage

Canon

100-500mm

Telephoto

Gavia stellata

Webbed Feet

Spring

Colorful

Closeup

Portrait

Canon R5 Mirrorless

Trust

Aquatic

Fill Flash « less

Groups appears in: • One Sweet World • NATURE'S SPIRIT (by invitation) (post 1/award 1)

Stats: 1,098 views / 40 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder